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Ideology Blocks Timely Cancer Treatment
Wednesday, 16 April 2003, 11:59 am | ACT New Zealand
The news that cancer treatment waiting lists are growing longer is not inevitable, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Stay At Home, Helen
Tuesday, 15 April 2003, 4:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today called on Helen Clark to cancel her trip to Europe. More >>
Dog Laws Just Add More Compliance Costs
Monday, 14 April 2003, 5:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
The new dog laws will just add more regulation, more costs, and more fines for law-abiding dog owners, ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble said today. More >>
Anti-US Stance Set To Hurt
Monday, 14 April 2003, 4:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today warned that the Labour Government's stance on the war in Iraq would impact on New Zealand meat producers, in the face of PPCS chief executive Stewart Barnett's prediction that the country ... More >>
Preb's Letter From Wellington
Monday, 14 April 2003, 3:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
Helen Clark took a battering in Parliament last week – her worst week since Paintergate. MPs who have been ministers saw through Clark’s untruthful claim she had given just a “verbal” instruction to Ambassador John Wood to convey an apology to the US. No ... More >>
Minister Must Stop Screwing Around
Monday, 14 April 2003, 1:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today accused Police Minister George Hawkins of fuelling New Zealand's rising crime rate and drug epidemic by crippling police in their ability to fight crime. More >>
Mallard the Ass Versus Harold the Giraffe
Monday, 14 April 2003, 9:24 am | ACT New Zealand
Education Minister Trevor Mallard's call for schools to boycott the immensely popular and successful Life Education Trust is juvenile and pathetic, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Prebble Speech NZ Political Studies Conference
Monday, 14 April 2003, 9:23 am | ACT New Zealand
As a small trading nation in the global economy, foreign policy is vital. Yet there was almost no debate on the issue at the last election. I was not asked a single question despite the ACT Party putting forward an alternative to every other party's ... More >>
Report Glossy, Weighty, But Empty
Monday, 14 April 2003, 9:21 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today slammed the New Zealand Law Commission's `Dispute Resolution in the Family Court' report as a 300-page smokescreen. More >>
Time To Look At The Bigger Picture
Friday, 11 April 2003, 6:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
Chief Youth Court Judge Andrew Beecroft yesterday identified six characteristics of serious youth offenders: 85 percent are male, the majority have no contact with their father, 80 percent do not go to school and have chronic drug or alcohol addictions, ... More >>
Clean, Green, But Not Very Safe
Friday, 11 April 2003, 11:36 am | ACT New Zealand
Federated Farmers is doing every non-criminal New Zealander a favour in highlighting lawlessness in rural New Zealand, ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Leaping Figures Must Be Addressed
Friday, 11 April 2003, 8:44 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today described Social Service and Employment Minister Steve Maharey's response to the DPB problem as pathetic, in light of new figures showing that the number of women on the DPB who have refused ... More >>
BIA's $10 Million Slush Fund - Who Grabs It?
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 4:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government should come clean on what it intends to do with the $10 million plus the Building Industry Authority has accumulated, now that the BIA is to be absorbed into a government department, ACT New Zealand Consumer Affairs Spokesman Deborah ... More >>
NZers Must Decide If Privy Council Stays or Goes
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 3:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT is promoting a cross party movement of MPs to press for a referendum on the abolition of our rights of appeal to the Privy Council. ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today wrote to political parties asking for their support for a citizens-initiated ... More >>
ACT New Zealand Launches Tax Campaign
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 3:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand is today launching its Tax Campaign for the 2003 Budget, Leader Richard Prebble said. More >>
Report Highlights Need For Change
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 9:29 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman labelled the Jules Mikus report, released today by chief CYF social worker Shannon Pakura, as an appalling litany of failure and said the document highlights the need for major departmental ... More >>
Prime Minister Misleads Again
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 5:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
Helen Clark's claim that the New Zealand Ambassador in Washington "was not called in by the US State Department" to express displeasure over her diplomatic gaffe is misleading in the extreme, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said ... More >>
Time To Look At The Bigger Picture
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 3:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
Claiming retrospective child support from errant fathers - promoted in Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey's crackdown on DPB mothers refusing to name the father of their children - will not solve the problem, ACT New Zealand Social ... More >>
Drugs On The Rise
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 11:13 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today slammed the Labour Government for its soft-on-crime approach - an approach that has crippled the police's ability to effectively fight the war on drugs and gangs. More >>
Labour Creates Two-Tier Primary Health System
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 9:45 am | ACT New Zealand
As predicted the Labour Government's new Primary Health Organisations are creating a two tier health system, ACT Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
